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<blockquote data-quote="Steve-o" data-source="post: 193295"><p>I'm not sure what you mean by it will be selfish from a NZ or SA perspective? If it's at domestic level it won't affect us. That said, I don't know how they're gonna revive the ARC. It was making massive losses.</p><p></p><p>Expanding to the island nations seems the way to go expansion wise, but financially it will be a struggle. They aren't very rich nations. Japan has a huge financial potential.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If this is to be implemented AND Australian rugby decides to expand to Asia and the PI's it will be very unfair for the latter 2. They'll be stuck with their small player pools while AUS will have free range options from arguably the 2 strongest rugby nations in the world.</p><p></p><p>From a SH perspective free-trade will decrease the 'Northern Drift' but from a SA perspective how many players wanna come to SA which is still a 3rd world country? From us it won't be worth it, we'll be giving NZ & AUS a blank cheque. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is works very well in the NFL and other American sports but is extremely dangerous to implement in a global game like rugby. The Blue Bulls are already putting players like Botha, Olivier and Habana on special contracts just to hold them in SA, putting a salary cap on them will be chopping their arms off. As long as teams in France don't have salary caps this will be a very damaging to rugby in the SH.</p><p></p><p>I like the private ownership idea, I really do, but you have to go all or nothing if you gonna introduce it. Salary caps are a big no no.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Eventually Test rugby is gonna start to take a back seat, it's inevitable. I agree, nation unions should have less say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve-o, post: 193295"] I'm not sure what you mean by it will be selfish from a NZ or SA perspective? If it's at domestic level it won't affect us. That said, I don't know how they're gonna revive the ARC. It was making massive losses. Expanding to the island nations seems the way to go expansion wise, but financially it will be a struggle. They aren't very rich nations. Japan has a huge financial potential. If this is to be implemented AND Australian rugby decides to expand to Asia and the PI's it will be very unfair for the latter 2. They'll be stuck with their small player pools while AUS will have free range options from arguably the 2 strongest rugby nations in the world. From a SH perspective free-trade will decrease the 'Northern Drift' but from a SA perspective how many players wanna come to SA which is still a 3rd world country? From us it won't be worth it, we'll be giving NZ & AUS a blank cheque. This is works very well in the NFL and other American sports but is extremely dangerous to implement in a global game like rugby. The Blue Bulls are already putting players like Botha, Olivier and Habana on special contracts just to hold them in SA, putting a salary cap on them will be chopping their arms off. As long as teams in France don't have salary caps this will be a very damaging to rugby in the SH. I like the private ownership idea, I really do, but you have to go all or nothing if you gonna introduce it. Salary caps are a big no no. Eventually Test rugby is gonna start to take a back seat, it's inevitable. I agree, nation unions should have less say. [/QUOTE]
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